They were best friends and grew up together from their childhood. They went to every match together and then to the army. But on one bitter day it ended. Nir Gellert remembers his friend Ariel Harush who was killed in an accident in 2017
November 17, 2017 at 17:00 my world turned upside down and all of my plans and thoughts changed.
Ariel was my best friend – Yellow & Blue in his soul.
You Ariel, who convinced me to change my life and become an integral part of our love Maccabi Tel Aviv and its fans.
We went to every match, in the rain, the cold and the heat. Whether in Bloomfield, Beer Sheva or Acre. For us it was a love that could not be stopped. Even when we enlisted, we made sure that every Saturday night we would be at every match, despite all of the fatigue and our families who really wanted to be with us.
We also chose the Maccabi Tel Aviv family.
I‘ll never forget how Maccabi defeated Bnei Yehuda in 2012/13 with a 98th minute goal. We jumped up and down in the stands that we broke a chair and we fell down in sheer happiness. I remember when we went to the stadium your smile filled your face with happiness. Your smile was something that was hard to forget and for us Maccabi was life.
And as I followed you and became a massive Maccabi fan, you Ariel followed me to the Artillery Corps. We had come a long way from middle school to the bitter day when it all ended. Today, going to matches without you no longer feels the same.
Dear friend, I miss you and being together with you very much.
Staff Sergeant Ariel Harush (1996-2017)
Graduated with honors from the Kiryat Sharet High School in Holon in the Biotechnology track. As a child he would accompany his father to Maccabi Tel Aviv football matches. When he completed his studies he enlisted in the Artillery Corps and enjoyed serving in the military.
On November 15, 2017, about two months before his long awaited release from the army and a week after celebrating his 21st birthday, Ariel was killed in an accident on a road in the north during an operation near Kibbutz Yiftah. He is survived by his pained parents and one sister
